by Dr. Ekkirala Krishnamacharya Book Presentation Overview Meditation

Lecture given in Liège, Belgium, on 16th July, 1974

The Full moon and New moon are the two important nodal points in human consciousness. In fact, all the mental activity of the biological beings on this earth is instrumented by the actions of the moon; the magnetic attraction of biological and non-biological Kingdom of this earth is also instrumented by the activity of the moon and the earth and the faculties which we call germination and reproduction are also caused by the activity of the Moon.

If the whole constitution has no resistance at all to offer to you, then you exist and all the constitution ceases to exist to you. That is the state of meditation which will be helped by the increasing moon. During increasing period of moon you will experience this to your advantage because the lines of forces travelling from your mind to your body and from your body to your mind are harmoniously arranged and the condition of perfect health and ease to all the lower vehicles offers no resistance to you inside and then inside you live and that is meditation. One secret about meditation is that it is not achieving a state of meditation but only removing an other state which is not meditation. Because what we call meditation is the natural state and what we call reaction activity is unnatural state. So it is only a removal of non-meditation and not at all an attainment of meditation. Goodness is not achieving something good but removing which is not good, that is not doing bad deeds makes you a good man.

Now the decreasing moon begins to cause great objective disturbance. You begin to observe your activity in your house and in your office. Mark the moon and mark the conditions in your house. During the hours when the full moon is being over, big changes occur during the routine of' your house. You have to start some things or finish some things or begin some things new. Big disturbance or a discussion with somebody or with your wife may be there, because you want to do something in some manner and she wants to do the same thing in some other manner. Until you are able to regulate this reaction from outside, you follow the course of moon and try to get the advantage of the moon by following the course of the moon.

The new moon and the full moon are the best days to conduct meditation within yourself and they are the days of' great opportunity to contact the higher forces in you and the higher forces outside. The higher forces whom we call Devas and the higher forces whom we call Masters can be contacted either on the full moon day or the new moon day. I think many of you have gone through the book with great veneration, the book named “DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE”. How to contact the Master is to meditate upon the day of full moon. First of all know the date of the full moon at least three days earlier so that you get yourself prepared to keep yourself engaged to yoga activity. The meditation activity and the activity of contacting the higher forces. Then every month you will be able to do this with ease but if you remember that tomorrow is full moon, today you cannot help because you have already fixed up appointments with friends tomorrow and for an occidentalist, an appointment is more than a death. He is not having the art of arranging things according to importance. The result is that you have to spend the full moon day in following the formalities with your friends and the whole day is spent away in hello, Bonjour and mercy and finally do Buzva to the full moon. Better luck next month.

For one month again you have no opportunity. This is the fate of an average occidentalist who is a slave of formalities. Excuse me, but this is true. Then what about the orientalists or Indians, you may ask? I can close my eyes even though my friend is coming because the friend understands this very easily and either he sits along with me in meditation or if he has any work he calmly goes away but never remembers that 1 have not told him Bonjour. We are free for Yoga in India. You also can be free; nothing is coming in the way provided you know the art of arranging your programme.

Remember to notice the full moon day at least five days in advance because if the full moon day happens to be a Dimanche once again it is gone. So it is cancelled. Let a holiday go away but let not the full moon day go. Catch hold of the full moon day and leave off Sunday and Dimanche because Sunday comes after seven days and full moon comes only after one month. It is a great opportunity. In the Veda, it is described that the moon is the doorway between yourself and the outer world. It is because the moon governs your mind and the mind is the doorway between yourself and others. On full moon day, the I am in you is reflected upon the mind and reflected also upon others as a beautiful expression of harmony. Then if you turn your mind inside, the harmony is focussed upon yourself, the mind is placed before you directly. The mind is a mirror. If you place the mirror directly before you, you will see only yourself and if you place in a wrong angle, you will see somebody's face in the mirror.

The objective activity is neutralised by doing meditation on full moon day. You will enter into yourself and live in yourself and automatically you will be taken by yourself into another plane - the planes called etheric plane and buddhic plane are easy to be attained on full moon day and new moon day.